FOX 22 reports on study exploring concussion-balance connection
FOX 22 Bangor reported on a University of Maine pilot study that could lead to a new method of monitoring people who sustain concussions.
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Maine Schools in Focus: Improving Educator Effectiveness—Useful Feedback Key to Maine’s PEPG Initiative
In 2012, Maine joined the majority of states in the effort to upgrade professional quality through better performance evaluation of teachers and principals. The Legislature, in passing LD 1858, required all districts to develop Professional Evaluation and Professional Growth (PEPG) systems, part of the federal government’s Race to the Top. All districts were to create their own systems and pilot them in 2015-16. This year, some districts are implementing these systems while others are taking a second year of pilot-testing.
Read moreUMaine research makes strides toward monitoring post-concussion symptoms
A team led by researchers from the University of Maine and Logan University recently conducted a pilot study that might lead to a new method of monitoring people who sustain concussions.
Read morePREP events for March
The Penobscot River Educational Partnership (PREP) has a few meetings and educator trainings scheduled for this month.
Read moreCollege of Education and Human Development to welcome Tree Street Youth students for campus tour, diversity dialogue
The public is invited to a diversity dialogue with students from Tree Street Youth during their visit to University of Maine on Tuesday, Feb. 21.
Read moreMaine Schools in Focus: Maine’s Charter Schools—A Five-Year Update
Five years into Maine’s experience, what have we learned about the state’s unique brand of public charter school?
Read moreProfessor examines 100 years of rural education research
What can you learn by studying 100 years of academic writing about rural education in the United States? For Catharine Biddle, assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, it’s this: the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Read moreEducation Week publishes commentary by Biddle
Education Week published the commentary “How education is failing rural America,” by Catharine Biddle, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, and Daniella Hall, a postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy.
Read moreMaine Schools in Focus: How Far Have We Come? Looking Back a Century
The turning of the new year prodded us to look back in time for some perspective on Maine schools in 2017. The annual “state of the schools” report for 1915-16 offers a few perhaps useful observations.
Read morePREP to host several meetings, training events in coming months
The Penobscot River Educational Partnership (PREP) has several meetings and educator trainings scheduled for late 2016 and early 2017.
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